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INS Farms' Elder Pure is first American-grown elderberry to undergo fingerprint analysis, says the firm
The polyphenol fingerprint analysis comparing American-grown elderberry to European-grown elderberry was performed by Complete Phytochemical Solutions.
INS Farms (Purdy, MO), a growing, processor, and supplier of black elderberry, has announced the results of the first-ever polyphenol fingerprint testing of black elderberry grown in the U.S. The test was performed by Christian Krueger and his team at Complete Phytochemical Solutions.
"The ambiguity in not knowing what exactly constitutes the starting material, we believe, prohibits trustworthy results of human clinical trials," said Devon Bennet, CEO of INS Farms, in a press release. "Revealing the thumbprint of the black elderberry grown in the USA is crucial because we cannot do any reasonable studies with any accuracy or repeatability."
Knowing the constituent profile, he adds, can also dramatically reduce the incidents of adulteration by spotting questionable material prior to manufacturing.
"We compared the polyphenol fingerprint of American-grown elderberry to its cousin, European-grown elderberry and found that they were remarkably similar with the exception of a few biomarkers that differentiates the two berries," explained Krueger in a press release. Now, the imperative is to quantify the starting material (American-grown elderberry) prior to performing any kind of in vitro or human clinical trials.
"By understanding the fundamental structure of American elderberry, we can then develop truthful structure/function claims in various health areas," adds Krueger. "Our focus moving forward is innovation, research and science to take elderberry beyond cough and cold."
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Q: How to bypass the proxy using java Here belwo is my code
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;

import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.utils.Base64;

public class webpageDisplay {

    /**
     * @param args
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        System.getProperties().put( "proxySet", "true" );
        System.getProperties().put( "proxyHost", "I given proxy host" );
        System.getProperties().put( "proxyPort", "85" );
        URL url=new URL("http://www.yahoo.com");
        URLConnection uc = url.openConnection ();
        String encoded = new String
              (Base64.encode(new String("user:pass").getBytes()));
        uc.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
        uc.connect();

         //String url = "http://www.yahoo.com";
            JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane(url);
            editor.setEditable(false);
            JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(editor);
            JFrame f = new JFrame("HTML Demo");
            f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            f.getContentPane().add(pane);
            f.setSize(800, 600);
            f.setVisible(true);

    }

}

even though i provided proxy host and userid still iam getting erorr as below
Exception in thread "main" java.net.UnknownHostException: www.yahoo.com
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:196)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:530)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:480)
    at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:169)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:406)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:541)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:245)
    at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:318)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLConnection.java:790)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:738)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:649)
    at webpageDisplay.main(webpageDisplay.java:26)

Can anyone suggest how to resolve the issue or how can i bypass the proxy

A: You need to use the properties http.proxyHost and http.proxyPort rather than just proxyHost and proxyPort.
See the following questions for example code:
How to use an HTTP proxy in java
Connect to a site using proxy code in java

A: You have crossed half the bridge.  The way you are passing UID/pwd has to be changed
You also need a java.net.Authenticator object whose static setDefault() method has to be called to setup authentication.  See here for more information
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/net/http-auth.html

A: System.setProperty("http.proxyHost", "132.186.192.234");
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", "8080");
System.setProperty("https.proxyUser", "ad001\\userid");
System.setProperty("https.proxyPassword", "sect");

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This Remington Rand M1911A1 is a 1944 production pistol with the third type logo roll mark that is applied to the left side of the slide.
This Remington Rand M1911A1 was on the Contract W-30-115-ORD-515 and was part of a 90,098 pistol contract.
The inspector stamp of FJA is for Colonel Frank J. Atwood. He was the Army Inspector of Ordnance at the Rochester Ordnance District from June 15th, 1942 to March 31st, 1946. He would inspect the total production of the M1911A1 pistols manufactured by Remington Rand and Ithaca.


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This retrospective ponders
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Some films also feature a live score
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Biography: Jack Sargent
Described as mixing the "critical apparatus of Foucault's Language Counter-Memory Practice with the sensibilities of a Tod Browning movie" Jack Sargeant is a writer, curator, artist and lecturer who is fascinated by the limits of human behaviour, and the aesthetic, political, sexual, and philosophical challenges to these limits.
An acknowledged expert in underground film and culture, his work has been described as "dangerously inspirational". His first book – written when he was 26 – Deathtripping: the Cinema of Transgression (republished as Deathtripping: the Extreme Underground) remains the only complete guide to post-punk New York underground film. Subsequent books Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, Suture and Cinema Contra Cinema continue Sargeant's exploration of underground cinema and avant garde artistic practice.
Simultaneously Sargeant has written extensively about cult and neglected B-movies with essays appearing in numerous collections including From The Arthouse to the Grindhouse (eds Rob Weiner and John Cline) and Underground USA (eds Xavier Mendick and Steven Jay Schneider). Sargeant has written on J G Ballard in Terminal Atrocity Zone (ed Candice Black) and contributed essays on topics as diverse as car crash pop songs, medical fetishism, road rage, and pubic hair to numerous collections. He has also written essays and introductions for books by Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Cat Hope and Erin Coates, amongst others.
He has lectured internationally on topics ranging from underground film, the work of William S Burroughs, obscure cultures and many other areas. He has curated film, performance, lectures, spoken word, fine art and photography exhibitions across the world.
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In a daylight robbery three armed robbers riding a motor bike struck at a jewellery shop on Monday, looting gold and silver jewellery and a mobile phone of the owner's wife.
After checking CCTV footage Superintendent of Police (City) Shweta Choubey has given the task of catching these robbers to Nehru Colony Police inspector and Special Operation Group.
According to the police, the robbers reached a jewellery shop in Saraswati Vihar, Nehru Colony at about 12:30 pm. Three of them came riding a motorbike. One stayed outside wearing a helmet while his two companions came inside with their face concealed inside helmets.
They then pointed a handgun at the shop owner's wife Lovey Rastogi, who was present at the shop with her child, and looted some gold and silver jewellery.
Soon after looting some items from the shop they escaped on the bike.
"The victim shop owner have not filed an official complaint yet, but the wife of the shopkeeper present at the crime scene estimated that the criminals looted jewellery valued at up to Rs 6,00,000.


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Profitable Farming shows that for the farmer who is willing to think laterally and has planned ahead, there are many new opportunties for making money from the land. Topics included: specialised crops and livestock; farm tourism; long-term planning and management of resources; value adding to produce; dealing with degraded land; working with climate change.
In the past, a farmers market was frequently local, with most competition coming from the local area or state, or perhaps within the country. Markets are now international, competition can come from anywhere in the world, including from places where labour costs are very low. But just as competition has increased, so have opportunities.It is no longer unrealistic to look at overseas, as well as still cater for local markets.
Routine, and doing things the way they've always been done, is comfortable. You know the procedure and in most instances the outcome. But many farms fail because, unbeknown to them, everything else is changing around them.This is not to say that old-fashioned ways are not good ways. In fact, many people are willing to pay extra for what they feel is extra service or extra quality. But that does not mean that change is not necessary.
A good example would be in providing farm fresh eggs. A small egg producer may have always managed chickens free range. Some people are willing to pay a premium to obtain free range eggs, and the cost of producing free range eggs is higher for the producer. What may have to change is the way the eggs are marketed. It is no longer good enough to sell the eggs as 'Farm Fresh'. The emphasis must be changed from that to 'Free Range'. So, the change here is small, but very effective.
Other changes may be more substantial, such as changing the overall production output of the farm. In the case of a farm raising wool sheep - is that the most effective use of all the land? Could the wool clip there be subsidised by growing a crop on part of the land? This would lessen the size of the wool flock, but may be more productive overall.
*Know their strengths and weaknesses, both personally and professionally.
There is always an emphasis on knowledge in business. Know your market, know what is going on in the economy at large, know what your product and core business is, know your strengths and weaknesses. It can be quite overwhelming. But being able to identify your strengths and weaknesses is important to knowing all of these other aspects of your business.
Identify what your strengths are, both personally and professionally. Then look at your weaknesses, so that you can identify where you need to find support. The most successful people don't expect to know everything. What they do know is how to admit where they need help and where they can get it.Expert advice need not always be costly.Producers organisations are a great source of information. They often provide forums for discussion, both formally and informally, as well as current information relevant to your particular market. They also often act as a lobby group, acting on your behalf on government issues.
Support can also be found through outside professional services. This can be in the form of bookkeeping service, accounting and legal advice, or through government advisory services. For instance, the Bureau of Meteorology have a wealth of information on weather patterns, temperatures, rainfall, etc. Many farm management decisions must be made based on the weather. If you are not good at keeping weather records, or have not had the opportunity, they can enhance your knowledge.
Half the battle of addressing and providing for your strengths and weaknesses is knowing the 'lingo'. All areas of business have their own language, be they plant growers, bankers, chemical suppliers or equipment dealers.By having an awareness of the language, you are half way to having the knowledge. If you feel that lack of understanding is a weakness, first try learning the language. You will find in many cases that you know a lot more than your thought you did.
*Plan ahead and always have contingency plans in place.
There is one thing that is sure about farming, that is that unexpected things will happen. You need to plan for things such as drought, fire, crop failure, animal diseases, etc. What arrangements, if any, do you have to cope with such problems. Could you plant fodder trees as windbreaks, that could be used as emergency stock food?. Do you have other sources of income (e.g. off farm investments, another job) that could support you through lean times on the farm? Have you invested profits from good years in new equipment, new dams, paying off loans ahead of schedule, etc? During a good season do you buy up large quantities of grass/lucerne, hay, etc; various grains when prices are low; molasses, etc. Do you alternate sources of feed for your stock in times of drought, such as road verges, timber plantations, public land, etc?
It is financially sound to take a slightly lower price at the beginning of a suspected drought than have to resort to shooting starving stock or watching them starve to death or die in bogs - neither of which is good husbandry practices.
*It is not what you have (money, facilities, assets etc), it is how you use it.
You might, for example, produce a wheat crop year in, year out, because that is what you, and your father, etc. have always done. Is this the most effective return for your time, money, equipment and material inputs? In many cases farmers often get little or no return from all their efforts and inputs - they would have been better off not growing a crop at all, instead of utilising their resources to do something else, or saving them for better conditions, and the land may be better off in the long term after a year of rest. Usually it is better to expend more time and effort in those areas where you get the most returns, or look at alternative enterprises with potential higher returns.
*Always be different -try to think laterally.
Just because everyone else in your area, and previous generations have all grown the same crops, or raised the same animals, doesn't mean you have to do the same things. Many of our farming enterprises, and production systems are based on those the early settlers brought with them from Europe. They may have been suitable for European conditions, but Australia is a lot different, particularly our generally low fertility soils, and lower average rainfall over much of the country. Why not look at other countries with similar climates? What crops are they growing successfully? What production methods are they using? What crops or animals are they experimenting with? What about crops or methods being used successfully elsewhere in this country? Are their crops or animal products that Australia imports, that could be readily grown here? Could you experiment on a small scale, without having to initially spend a lot of time and resources?
Each step in processing a product, can significantly increase its value. For example milling wheat to produce flour, will see an increase in value. Converting that flour into products such as pasta or bread will see another increase in value, as will further processing those products into a cooked meal (e.g. sandwiches, pasta dishes). Could you readily process your products in some way 'on farm' to get a significant increase in value. This may not require a significant investment in processing equipment, or the returns from purchasing or building such equipment may make such investments well worthwhile in only a few years. Further examples of value adding are discussed in the chapter on Alternatives.
*Know what your business is.
Be sure you know what you are doing, or aim to do. Don't try and be all things to everyone. You will generally get better results concentrating your resources (time, money, equipment, etc.) on one, or perhaps two or three enterprises, than on many enterprises, otherwise you will find yourself running from one to another, and not doing justice to any of them. You might find yourself literally a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. Customers will generally prefer to deal with someone who is an expert in their particular field or enterprise.
*You need to give people a reason to spend money with you rather than with someone else.
Your product or service needs to be sufficiently different, or of better quality, be better marketed (e.g. attractive packaging), or you provide better service (e.g. follow ups, transport, advice, etc) than what competitors may provide to ensure customers choose you to provide the service or product.
The old saying that "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" holds true when considering new enterprises. If new enterprises where easy, or didn't take a lot of time, effort and research then lots of people would try them. Be prepared to take risks, but make sure they are calculated risks. Ensure that you have done as much research as possible into any proposed enterprises, and that you are as aware as possible of things that could go wrong. Learn from other people's mistakes in the same or similar industries.
If possible have fall back plans. Could you use equipment, materials, etc. you have purchased for other things, rather than wasting them if the enterprise you are trying is not successful? It is generally a good idea to experiment at first. Try things in a small way, and see if you strike any problems, if so, can they be easily overcome. When you feel confident with what you are doing, only then consider expanding. This may be a step by step process, rather than jumping in feet first, spending a lot of time and money, only to fail.


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Current Search: Research Repository (x) » Statistics (x) » Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe) (x)
High Level Image Analysis on Manifolds via Projective Shapes and 3D Reflection Shapes.
Lester, David T. (David Thomas), Patrangenaru, Victor, Liu, Xiuwen, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Tao, Minjing, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreLester, David T. (David Thomas), Patrangenaru, Victor, Liu, Xiuwen, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Tao, Minjing, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
Shape analysis is a widely studied topic in modern Statistics with important applications in areas such as medical imaging. Here we focus on two-sample hypothesis testing for both finite and infinite extrinsic mean shapes of configurations. First, we present a test for equality of mean projective shapes of 2D contours based on rotations. Secondly, we present a test for mean 3D reflection shapes based on the Schoenberg mean. We apply these tests to footprint data (contours), clamshells (3D...
Show moreShape analysis is a widely studied topic in modern Statistics with important applications in areas such as medical imaging. Here we focus on two-sample hypothesis testing for both finite and infinite extrinsic mean shapes of configurations. First, we present a test for equality of mean projective shapes of 2D contours based on rotations. Secondly, we present a test for mean 3D reflection shapes based on the Schoenberg mean. We apply these tests to footprint data (contours), clamshells (3D reflection shape) and human facial configurations extracted from digital camera images. We also present the method of MANOVA on manifolds, and apply it to face data extracted from digital camera images. Finally, we present a new statistical tool called anti-regression.
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Modeling Multivariate Data with Parameter-Based Subspaces.
Gupta, Ajay, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Meyer-Baese, Anke, She, Yihuan, Zhang, Jinfeng, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
When modeling multivariate data such as vectorized images, one might have an extra parameter of contextual information that could be used to treat some observations as more similar to others. For example, images of faces can vary by yaw rotation, and one would expect a face rotated 65 degrees to the left to have characteristics more similar to a face rotated 55 degrees to the left than to a face rotated 65 degrees to the right. We introduce a novel method, parameterized principal component...
Show moreWhen modeling multivariate data such as vectorized images, one might have an extra parameter of contextual information that could be used to treat some observations as more similar to others. For example, images of faces can vary by yaw rotation, and one would expect a face rotated 65 degrees to the left to have characteristics more similar to a face rotated 55 degrees to the left than to a face rotated 65 degrees to the right. We introduce a novel method, parameterized principal component analysis (PPCA), that can model data with linear variation like principal component analysis (PCA), but can also take advantage of this parameter of contextual information like yaw rotation. Like PCA, PPCA models an observation using a mean vector and the product of observation-specific coefficients and basis vectors. Unlike PCA, PPCA treats the elements of the mean vector and basis vectors as smooth, piecewise linear functions of the contextual parameter. PPCA is fit by a penalized optimization that penalizes potential models which have overly large differences between corresponding mean or basis vector elements for similar parameter values. The penalty ensures that each observation's projection will share information with observations that have similar parameter values, but not with observations that have dissimilar parameter values. We tested PPCA on artificial data based on known, smooth functions of an added parameter, as well as on three real datasets with different types of parameters. We compared PPCA to independent principal component analysis (IPCA), which groups observations by their parameter values and projects each group using principal component analysis with no sharing of information for different groups. PPCA recovers the known functions with less error and projects the datasets' test set observations with consistently less reconstruction error than IPCA does. PPCA's performance is particularly strong, relative to IPCA, when there are limited training data. We also tested the use of spectral clustering to form the groups in an IPCA model. In our experiment, the clustered IPCA model had very similar error to the parameter-based IPCA model, suggesting that spectral clustering might be a viable alternative if one did not know the parameter values for an application.
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The One-and Two-Sample Problem for Data on Hilbert Manifolds with Applications to Shape Analysis.
Qiu, Mingfei, Patrangenaru, Victor, Liu, Xiuwen, Slate, Elizabeth H., Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Clickner, Robert Paul, Paige, Robert, Florida State University, College...
Show moreQiu, Mingfei, Patrangenaru, Victor, Liu, Xiuwen, Slate, Elizabeth H., Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Clickner, Robert Paul, Paige, Robert, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
This dissertation is concerned with high level imaging analysis. In particular, our focus is on extracting the projective shape information or the similarity shape from digital camera images or Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI). The approach is statistical without making any assumptions about the distributions of the random object under investigation. The data is organized as points on a Hilbert manifold. In the case of projective shapes of finite dimensional configuration of points, we...
Show moreThis dissertation is concerned with high level imaging analysis. In particular, our focus is on extracting the projective shape information or the similarity shape from digital camera images or Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI). The approach is statistical without making any assumptions about the distributions of the random object under investigation. The data is organized as points on a Hilbert manifold. In the case of projective shapes of finite dimensional configuration of points, we consider testing a one-sample null hypothesis, while in the infinite dimensional case, we considered a neighborhood hypothesis testing methods. For 3D scenes, we retrieve the 3D projective shape, and use the Lie group structure of the projective shape space. We test the equality of two extrinsic means, by introducing the mean projective shape change. For 2D MRI of midsections of Corpus Callosum contours, we use an automatic matching technique that is necessary in pursuing a one-sample neighborhood hypothesis testing for the similarity shapes. We conclude that the mean similarity shape of the Corpus Callosum of average individuals is very far from the shape of Albert Einstein's, which may explain his geniality. Another application of our Hilbert manifold methodology is two-sample testing problem for Veronese-Whitney means of projective shapes of 3D contours. Particularly, our data consisting comparing 3D projective shapes of contours of leaves from the same tree species.
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Parameter Sensitive Feature Selection for Learning on Large Datasets.
Gramajo, Gary, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Piyush, Kumar, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), She, Yiyuan, Zhang, Jinfeng, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreGramajo, Gary, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Piyush, Kumar, Huffer, Fred W. (Fred William), She, Yiyuan, Zhang, Jinfeng, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
Though there are many feature selection methods for learning, they might not scale well to very large datasets, such as those generated in computer vision data. Furthermore, it can be beneficial to capture and model the variability inherent to data such as face detection where a plethora of face poses (i.e. parameters) are possible. We propose a parameter sensitive learning method that can learn effectively on datasets that can be prohibitively large. Our contributions are the following....
Show moreThough there are many feature selection methods for learning, they might not scale well to very large datasets, such as those generated in computer vision data. Furthermore, it can be beneficial to capture and model the variability inherent to data such as face detection where a plethora of face poses (i.e. parameters) are possible. We propose a parameter sensitive learning method that can learn effectively on datasets that can be prohibitively large. Our contributions are the following. First, we propose an efficient feature selection algorithm that optimizes a differentiable loss with sparsity constraints. We note that any differentiable loss can be used and will vary depending on the application. The iterative algorithm alternates parameter updates with tightening the sparsity constraints by gradually removing variables based on the coefficient magnitudes and a schedule. Second, we show how to train a single parameter sensitive classifier that models the wide range of class variability. The sole classifier is important since this reduces the amount of data necessary for training compared to methods where multiple classifiers are trained for each parameter value. Third, we show how to use nonlinear univariate response functions to obtain a nonlinear decision boundary with feature selection; an important characteristic since the separation of classes in real world datasets is very challenging. Fourth, we show it is possible to mine hard negatives with feature selection, though it is more difficult. This is vital in computer vision data where 10^5 training examples can be generated per image. Fifth, we propose an approach to perform face detection using a 3D model on a number of face keypoints. We modify binary face features from the literature (generated using random forests) to fit into our 3D model framework. Experiments on detecting the face keypoints and on face detection using the proposed 3D models and modified face features show that the feature selection dramatically improve performance and come close to the state of the art on two standard datasets for face detection . We also apply our parameter sensitive learning method with feature selection to detect malicious websites, a dataset with approximately 2.4 million websites and 3.3 million features per website. We outperform other batch algorithms and obtain results close to a high performing online algorithm but using far fewer features.
Statistical Methods for Big Data and Their Applications in Biomedical Research.
Yu, Kaixian, Zhang, Jinfeng, Sang, Qing-Xiang Amy, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), She, Yiyuan, Sinha, Debajyoti, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreYu, Kaixian, Zhang, Jinfeng, Sang, Qing-Xiang Amy, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), She, Yiyuan, Sinha, Debajyoti, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
Big data has brought both opportunities and challenges to our research community. Complex models can be built with large volumes of data researchers have never had access before. In this study we explore the structure learning of Bayesian network (BN) and its application to reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks (GRNs). A Bayesian network is a graphical representation of a joint distribution that encodes the conditional dependencies and independencies among the variables. We proposed...
Show moreBig data has brought both opportunities and challenges to our research community. Complex models can be built with large volumes of data researchers have never had access before. In this study we explore the structure learning of Bayesian network (BN) and its application to reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks (GRNs). A Bayesian network is a graphical representation of a joint distribution that encodes the conditional dependencies and independencies among the variables. We proposed a novel three-stage BN structure learning method, called GRASP (GRowth-based Approach with Staged Pruning). In the first stage, a new skeleton (undirected edges) discovery method, double filtering (DF), was designed. Compared to existing methods, DF requires smaller sample sizes to achieve similar statistical power. Based on the skeleton estimated in the first step, we proposed a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) method to sample the edges and their directions to optimize a BIC-based score. SMC method has less tendency to be trapped in local optima, and the computation is easily parallelizable. On the third stage, we reclaim the edges that may be missed from previous stages. We obtained satisfactory results from simulation study and applied the method to infer GRNs from real experimental data. A method on personalized chemotherapy regimen selection for breast cancer and a novel algorithm for relationship extraction from unstructured documents will be discussed as well.
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The Studies of Joint Structure Sparsity Pursuit in the Applications of Hierarchical Variable Selection and Fused Lasso.
Jiang, He, She, Yiyuan, Ökten, Giray, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Mai, Qing, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
In this dissertation, we study joint sparsity pursuit and its applications in variable selection in high dimensional data. The first part of dissertation focuses on hierarchical variable selection and its application in a two-way interaction model. In high-dimensional models that involve interactions, statisticians usually favor variable selection obeying certain logical hierarchical constraints. The first part of this paper focuses on structural hierarchy which means that the existence of an...
Show moreIn this dissertation, we study joint sparsity pursuit and its applications in variable selection in high dimensional data. The first part of dissertation focuses on hierarchical variable selection and its application in a two-way interaction model. In high-dimensional models that involve interactions, statisticians usually favor variable selection obeying certain logical hierarchical constraints. The first part of this paper focuses on structural hierarchy which means that the existence of an interaction term implies that at least one or both associated main effects must be present. Lately this problem has attracted a lot of attentions from statisticians, but existing computational algorithms converge slow and cannot meet the challenge of big data computation. More importantly, theoretical studies of hierarchical variable selection are extremely scarce, largely due to the difficulty that multiple sparsity-promoting penalties are enforced on the same subject. This work investigates a new type of estimator based on group multi-regularization to capture various types of structural parsimony simultaneously. In this work, we present non-asymptotic results based on combined statistical and computational analysis, and reveal the minimax optimal rate. A general-purpose algorithm is developed with a theoretical guarantee of strict iterate convergence and global optimality. Simulations and real data experiments demonstrate the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed approach. The second topic studies Fused Lasso which pursues joint sparsity of both variables and their consecutive differences simultaneously. The overlapping penalties of Fused Lasso pose critical challenges to computation studies and theoretical analysis. Some theoretical analysis about fused lasso, however, is only performed under an orthogonal design and there is hardly any nonasymptotic study in the past literature. In this work, we study Fused Lasso and its application in a classification problem to achieve exact clustering. Computationally, we derive a simple-to-implement algorithm which scales well to big data computation; in theory, we propose a brand new technique and some nonasymptotic analysis are performed. To evaluate the prediction performance theoretically, we derived oracle inequality of Fused Lasso estimator to show the $ell_2$ prediction error rate. The minimax optimal rate is also revealed. For estimation accuracy, $ell_q (1leq q leq infty)$ norm error bound for fused lasso estimator is derived. The simulation studies shows that exact clustering can be achieved using post-thresholding technique.
Testing for the Equality of Two Distributions on High Dimensional Object Spaces and Nonparametric Inference for Location Parameters.
Guo, Ruite, Patrangenaru, Victor, Mio, Washington, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Bradley, Jonathan R., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department...
Show moreGuo, Ruite, Patrangenaru, Victor, Mio, Washington, Barbu, Adrian G. (Adrian Gheorghe), Bradley, Jonathan R., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics
Our view is that while some of the basic principles of data analysis are going to remain unchanged, others are to be gradually replaced with Geometry and Topology methods. Linear methods are still making sense for functional data analysis, or in the context of tangent bundles of object spaces. Complex nonstandard data is represented on object spaces. An object space admitting a manifold stratification may be embedded in an Euclidean space. One defines the extrinsic energy distance associated...
Show moreOur view is that while some of the basic principles of data analysis are going to remain unchanged, others are to be gradually replaced with Geometry and Topology methods. Linear methods are still making sense for functional data analysis, or in the context of tangent bundles of object spaces. Complex nonstandard data is represented on object spaces. An object space admitting a manifold stratification may be embedded in an Euclidean space. One defines the extrinsic energy distance associated with two probability measures on an arbitrary object space embedded in a numerical space, and one introduces an extrinsic energy statistic to test for homogeneity of distributions of two random objects (r.o.'s) on such an object space. This test is validated via a simulation example on the Kendall space of planar k-ads with a Veronese-Whitney (VW) embedding. One considers an application to medical imaging, to test for the homogeneity of the distributions of Kendall shapes of the midsections of the Corpus Callosum in a clinically normal population vs a population of ADHD diagnosed individuals. Surprisingly, due to the high dimensionality, these distributions are not significantly different, although they are known to have highly significant VW-means. New spread and location parameters are to be added to reflect the nontrivial topology of certain object spaces. TDA is going to be adapted to object spaces, and hypothesis testing for distributions is going to be based on extrinsic energy methods. For a random point on an object space embedded in an Euclidean space, the mean vector cannot be represented as a point on that space, except for the case when the embedded space is convex. To address this misgiving, since the mean vector is the minimizer of the expected square distance, following Frechet (1948), on an embedded compact object space, one may consider both minimizers and maximizers of the expected square distance to a given point on the embedded object space as mean, respectively anti-mean of the random point. Of all distances on an object space, one considers here the chord distance associated with the embedding of the object space, since for such distances one can give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a unique Frechet mean (respectively Frechet anti-mean). For such distributions these location parameters are called extrinsic mean (respectively extrinsic anti-mean), and the corresponding sample statistics are consistent estimators of their population counterparts. Moreover around the extrinsic mean ( anti-mean ) located at a smooth point, one derives the limit distribution of such estimators.
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Kwaj-RMI basketball series
May 6, 2016 by Journal
Journal 5/7/1976
P11 The Nite Life by Stoney Talking with my Australian buddy Geoff Clark who just came back from Australia, he was saying about the service on Air Nauru is really excellent, and they really using their motto, "We'll fly you across the Pacific and give you the best service you ever come across." I believe in what they say about Air Nauru, I told Geoff cause when I went down Nauru last year, they treat me good. After that Nagel told us about Air Mike! Air Mike's motto, "we move our golden tail for you!" But when I came from Honolulu they really give me a lousy service. Like what Nagel? I asked. Well, you see, they serve sandwiches on the plane. The stewardess came with sandwiches. I used to fly on Air Mike seven to 10 times in one year, and I know what the good sandwiches and the bad ones look like, so I picked two ham sandwiches, but my friend sit beside me, he just pick all kinds of sandwich. But when he saw me eating ham sandwiches, he asked me if I can exchange with his, so I gave him the one and half sandwiches, and I wait for the stewardess so I can ask to get some more sandwiches.
Hey mam, can you give some more sandwiches? I'm sorry, but we still got plenty people to feed. If, there's any leftover, please bring me some. OK, I'll see that you get some more, but when I asked my friend Ricky who was sitting next to me for some of his, he say no more, and I say to myself, oh no, look like I'm not gonna eat. After that, the stewardess came back with at ray full of sandwiches. I thought, she was bringing them for me, but it was all for the fat couple who was sitting behind me and Rick. When the stewardess left, I asked the fat couple, when you through can you pass over to me your leftover. They didn't say anything to me, they eat them all. You know what came to my mind Stoney, black people are better than white cause if that couple were Marshallese, they would have share their sandwiches with me, even though they don't know me. I asked Nagel, who was the stewardess? It's an American girl. If that was a Micronesian stewardess, she would have gave me some more sandwiches. Maybe they out of sandwiches? I asked. No, they still got plenty. They should hire all Micronesian cause they done better job, like Air Nauru, all island girls stewardess and they treat you nice.
Journal 5/10/1991
P4 Bad month, April Grant Gordon just back from South Korea where he and Mr. Ji went to check out more equipment and supplies. Grant said he worked his posterior off. If course, not many believe this. He did tell me that his venture at the Yacht Club has gone kaput. He said the ice cream magnates from Long Island, Bill and Harry, have taken over. "What was wrong?" I asked. He told me, but I won't print it. You'll have to ask him yourself. He said he lost a friend in the process. He also told me he lost his iron, too. Seems that his wife, make that his ex-wife, came home to borrow his iron. She said she was going to the church. She hasn't come back. He said April was rough. Lost his business, lost his friend, lost his iron, lost his wife. He said he really misses the first three.
P20 Special delivery Bikini Liaison Jack Niedenthal hands over checks worth $3.6 million to Bikini Mayor Tomaki Juda on Wednesday, following approval of the special payment by the US Congress, President Clinton and the Interior Department. The Bikini local government began distributing the checks the same day.
P20 Kwaj-RMI basketball showdown It's basketball showdown time this Saturday when the first game in a weekend series between Kwajalein and Majuro teams kick off. The RMI national team will have its hands full with the tall and talented Kwajalein team. Marshall Islands High School will challenge Kwajalein High School on Saturday following the national team game at the ECC gym.
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Car thieves arrested while hiding at the Smart and Final store on Bristol and Edinger
Posted on January 13, 2016 by Editor Posted in Crime, David Benavides, Santa Ana
A reader told us yesterday that there were a lot of SAPD police cars and a police helicopter near the Smart & Final store, located at 1308 W. Edinger Ave. Now we know why.
Fernando Ceja, a 32-year-old wanted parolee with a long history of crime, and his girlfriend, Martha Carraco, 24, both of Santa Ana, were arrested yesterday and charged with stealing a pickup truck and then trying to hide in the unfortunate Smart & Final store, according to the O.C. Register.
This mess started at 12:30 p.m. yesterday when a man left his Toyota Tundra running, outside his home at the 2600 block of South Baker Street, next to Coastal Communities Hospital, while he went inside his home.
The man was returning to his truck when Ceja and Carraco jumped into the vehicle and sped off going North on Baker Street.
The O.C. Sheriff Department's helicopter spotted the stolen pickup truck and followed it to a parking lot on South Bristol Street and West St. Andrew Place.
The suspects then got out of the truck and walked into the Smart and Final Store, which is located at West Edinger and South Bristol St., across the street from Mater Dei High School. and just north of Jose Andres Sepulveda Elementary School.
Remarkably, Carraco, once in the store, was somehow able to convince a female store employee to switch clothes with her in a scheme to blend in as a store employee. Ceja was able to procure a jacket from a store customer and he asked a female shopper to walk with him out of the store.
Ceja's plan was to leave the store and try to blend in with the crowd outside.
It seemed like a good plan but as they left the store, the female shopper saw the SAPD units that had surrounded the building and she ran back into the store, leaving Ceja to be arrested. He was charged with suspicion of grand theft auto.
Carraco was arrested too. She was charged with suspicion of possession of stolen property.
Fortunately no one was injured. The SAPD did not find any weapons.
Ceja pleaded guilty in 2007 to two felony counts of firearm possession by a felon and street terrorism. He was sentenced to more than 7 years for those crimes and for also admitting to criminal street gang activities.
Ceja also pleaded guilty in 2005 to felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, street terrorism and sale or transport of a controlled substance.
No previous arrest information was available for Carraco.
This incident happened in Santa Ana's Ward 4, which is represented by Councilman David Benavides.
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This was going to be different from amateur film-making, not in the least because I don't get an opportunity for a second take. Given that I wasn't actually in control of anyone, I might not even get a first take. And since the whole event was essentially an experiment to see how it went, I had little idea of what would be happening and where to position myself for capturing footage of the sort that I didn't know what it would be.
ScotGovCamp specifically was about digital Scotland, and drew together a wide range of people from local government, commentators on social issues, self-proclaimed geeks, librarians and civil servants. My impression was that the subject matter was nebulous, but that was perhaps just me who felt to be a bit of an outsider. Shooting was straightforward to begin with, before anyone had really arrived. A handful of people turned up and before the actual event kicked off proper, there was a lot of setting up to do. This was the easiest to film as I only had to wander around and point the camera at anything which looked interesting, such as setting up a display stand or people wandering past the Eduardo Paolozzi art installation. I had some fun filming transitions, panning from the roof down to the group standing round the registration table, filming the flashing lights on one of the walls or panning from the sculpture to people just arriving. I had no idea if I'd use them, it was just in case.
It was obvious early on that there was no way I'd be able to capture everything which happened on the day, given that it lasted much of the day and was split into three discussion rooms named Hume, Brown and Ferguson after Edinburgh University Alumni – Lesley's idea – and not after three varieties of quark particle - strange, bottom and charmed – which I was pushing for. But when everyone was still together in the atrium, I had a straightforward area of focus, Lesley and Dave Briggs giving the pep talk and assembling the agenda from the suggested topics. It was immediately before this that something unexpected happened.
This remained a highlight, since it was obvious how to make a neat little video – only a couple of minutes long – from that part of the day. Actually putting it together of course is something I'll still have to sit at the video editing suite (desk in corner of living room) to do. Now a neat little video is something that is more problematic for something which represents the entirety of the day. Not being able to film everything means that I need to convey the flavour of it and do so without dragging. This is something that I'm still trying to figure out, since their wasn't a grand overarching scheme to begin with. In any case, once the preliminaries were over with, I wandered in and out of the various conversations which were taking place, trying to get as many angles as I could, concentrating on whoever was speaking at the time. What became obvious was that it would be extremely difficult even to cover a single train of thought form the participants. Self-organising seating favoured a circle which meant that often a dialogue was being held where I filmed one person but could only get the back of the head of the other.
Even putting finished video clips of a continuous minute or two minutes on the web would lack context enough to make sense of what was being said. Halfway through the day I was mooting the possibility of getting someone to provide a voice over in conjunction with any conclusions. In other words, I'd given myself a bunch of work by volunteering to film and would be giving myself even more work (another thing I excel at) the more I thought about it! And just dumping the whole two and a quarter hours worth of footage to the web would not exactly make for riveting viewing!
So what I have ahead of me is an exercise in transitions, crossfades, categorisations, titles and wishing that the video would self-organise too. But failing that, the classic fallback position is to stare at the clips until a moment of inspiration occurs, and hope that being on holiday doesn't derail me too much! But seriously, now it's just a matter of piecing it together.


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Little Gray's Great Migration
Little Gray loved his lagoon and the humans who came to visit him there. One day, Mama announces that they must swim north to a far-away sea. At first he is sad to leave his home, but Little Gray soon realizes the importance of their journey. What happens along the way and how does Little Gray help his mother? Swim along with Little Gray as he finds the way to this special, food-filled sea.
This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 39-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Little Gray's Great Migration is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension.
Written by Marta Lindsey, Illustrated by Andrea Gabriel
32 pg, 10 x 8.5, Ages 4-8, Grades K-3, Lexile: AD 540, F&P: M
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Keywords: migration, gray whales, adaptations, map
Animals in the book: gray whale
Vetters: Thanks to Dr. Sarah Allen, marine scientist with the National Park Service's Ocean and Coastal Resources Program, for reviewing the accuracy of the information in this book.
Lindsey weaves whale facts into the journey, describing the sounds they use to communicate and various food sources. - Kirkus Reviews
This is the story of Little Gray, a whale calf who must follow his mother from the small lagoon to the larger sea. At first, Little Gray resists leaving his familiar home, but he soon acclimates to the sea and the riches it provides. - Library Media Connection
While the story is fiction, the information is factual and back matter provides an in-depth look at different aspects of whale behavior. - Ithaca Child Magazine
Marta Lindsey has a degree in environmental science and is a volunteer at Point Reyes National Seashore, a popular place to see gray whales on their annual migration along the Pacific coast. Marta's time spent whale-watching, made her wonder what it would be like to swim thousands of miles, especially if you were just a few months old? Marta hopes this story will inspire readers to learn about gray whales, go whale-watching themselves, and help whale conservation efforts worldwide. Marta lives in San Francisco with her husband, Drew, and their daughter, Helena. Little Gray's Great Migration is her debut picture book.
Award-winning artist Andrea Gabriel has worked as a professional illustrator for the past fifteen years. In addition to Been There, Done That: Reading Animal Signs and Little Gray's Great Migration for Arbordale, some of Andrea's other illustrated works include Where Do I Sleep? and Eaglet's World. Andrea is the author and illustrator of Wandering Woolly> and My Favorite Bear. Andrea lives in Bellingham, Washington with her family of two-and four-legged creatures. Visit her website at bigbearillustration.com


Fix to solr facets: if there are 2 values assigned for a metadata of a doc, e.g. a doc's subjects meta is set to youth, and another subjects meta for that doc is set to food, it used to appear under solr's subjects facet as a new, single term called 'youth food'. But now each distinct value for that meta is indexed as a separate field with a separate value, despite the same field name (the meta, e.g. subjects). In order for this to work, the schema.xml.in, which gets copied into a solr col's etc/conf folder, needed to specify that the dynamic field for by* is multivalued (previously set to false, now true) to allow many field elements for the same field name. Tested solr-jdbm-demo (and my simple test case). Nothing that wasn't already broken in faceted searching of solr-jdbm-demo appears broken here, but results are still different, which may be expected since there's no accumulated meta value for a doc's metadata anymore.
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Ma Rainey Quotes
When Ma Rainey (1)
The speaker assumes that we know who Ma Rainey is, just as you would assume someone knows The Beatles or Beyonce. He may also assume that you know she is an African-American performer in the Jim Crow South and most of her fans are going to be black, too.
Folks from anyplace (3)
The word folk has some very specific connotations. Usually, it gives the reader a sense of down-homeness, of simple dignity, and that's definitely how it's being used here. Brown might be doing that on purpose, because the word was often used in this sense, back in the early 20th century. For example, W.E.B. Dubois wrote a very important book called The Souls of Black Folk that championed Black culture as valuable to the culture at large.
Dey comes to hear Ma Rainey from de little river settlements,
From blackbottom cornrows and from lumber camps; (19-20)
Here the speaker mentions a few traditionally black communities in the south. River settlements, lumber camps—they're all places where working-class African Americans could make a living and share a space.
O Ma Rainey,
Sing yo' song;
Now you's back
Whah you belong, (27-30)
By saying that she's back where she belongs, our speaker let's us know that Ma Rainey is very much a part of the black community. In fact, she seems pretty pivotal in shaping the identity of that black community through music.
Li'l an' low;
Sing us 'bout de hard luck
Roun' our do' (33-36)
It's request time at the concert. And the audience requests songs about the hardships they experience as black people in the South. By asking Ma Rainey to sing about this, the audience illustrates the deep connection between blues music, their racial identity, and the suffering they've endured as a result of it.
From Cape Girardeau,
Poplar Bluff, (5-6)
These two well-known towns in the Mississippi river valley were characterized by widespread poverty back in the day, especially when it came to their black citizens.
Comes flivverin' in, (9)
Flivverin's not just a cool word. It also tells us that these people aren't cruising in in fancy Cadillacs. They drive jalopies.
Or ridin' mules, (10)
Back in the day, mules were owned by those who couldn't spring for a horse, so in a poem like this, it's a sure sign of a lack of cash.
Picknickin' fools…. (12)
Could it be that the fans pack their lunches in order to save money while traveling?
Roun' our do'; (36)
While this line could be taken as a request for Ma to sing about the struggles that black people endure in a racist southern community, it's also likely about the poverty they must deal with, too. And poverty and racism were intertwined back then, as black people were given few opportunities to make their lives better. Hence, the blues.
Visions of the South
Fo' miles on down,
to New Orleans delta
An' Mobile town, (5-6, 14-16)
Well here's a nice cross section of the Mississippi River valley and the Deep South. But what about the rest of America? Would folks come to see her from Albuquerque to Annapolis?
From blackbottom cornrows and from lumber camps;
Dey stumble in de hall, jes a'laughin' and' a-cacklin',
Cheerin' lak roarin' water, lak wind in river swamps. (19-22)
Here the speaker makes a poetic link (with some handy similes) between the behavior of these people and the land they come from. They cheer and laugh like water, and like the wind. But not just any wind—the "wind in river swamps," perhaps like those that line the Mississippi.
'It rained fo' days an' de skies was dark as night,
Trouble taken place in de lowlands at night.
'Thundered an' lightened an' the storm begin to roll
Thousan's of people ain't got no place to go.
'Den I went an' stood upon some high ol' lonesome hill,
An' looked down on the place where I used to live.' (42-47)
Floods are a common occurrence in the Mississippi River valley, and they're something black southerners would be all too familiar with. No wonder there are so many blues songs about it.


I believe we are at a pivotal moment in human history. We are a global civilization with a choice of two paths - one path leads to self-destruction, the other leads to elevation to a more conscious way of being and doing. History does often repeat itself, but this moment in history is actually unique.
We have never been as inter-connected as we are now or as globally aware, and the many media we use are the languages that create the strands of our collective web for communication and evolution. I choose to use those languages responsibly, to tell stories that move us towards a more conscious, compassionate, and loving way of existing. I am an optimist. I believe that the path of conscious human evolution is ours to create. And it is our job to write the new mythologies that will guide us.


Home / Piracetam / Piracetam vs Aniracetam: Which is Best?
If you've been taking Piracetam for a while, have been satisfied with its performance and haven't noticed any intolerable side effects, you might be thinking about trying some of the other racetams. For many nootropic users, the next step after Piracetam is Aniracetam.
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-La Roche developed Aniracetam (1-p-anisoyl-2-pyrrolidinone) in the 1970s as a fat soluble alternative to Piracetam, which is water soluble. Fat soluble molecules cross the blood brain barrier more easily than water soluble molecules do.
Because it crosses the blood brain barrier so easily, Aniracetam is very fast acting compared to Piracetam. However, its effects don't last as long as those of Piracetam. This is because a large percentage of a dose of Aniracetam is broken down in the liver during digestion; only about 0.2% of the original dose reaches the systemic circulation. Piracetam, on the other hand, has almost 100% bioavailability. It's practically unchanged by the time it's excreted in the urine.
Both drugs are cognitive enhancers with neuroprotective qualities. Research shows that Aniracetam, like Piracetam, preserves cognitive function in people with dementia.
Aniracetam has been shown to improve learning ability in rats, monkeys and pigeons. It restores memory in rats that have been given electric shocks or scopolamine and monkeys that have been given scopolamine. It repairs cognitive defects in rats that have experienced traumatic brain injuries or have foetal alcohol syndrome.
Aniracetam has additional benefits that Piracetam doesn't share. For one thing, it's a mood enhancer that reduces fear, anxiety and depression and increase sociability. Rats given Aniracetam become less fearful, possibly because it affects serotonin and dopamine receptors, and spend more time engaging in social behaviours. Some people take it to relieve symptoms of social anxiety. It might alleviate post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
When given to older rats, Aniracetam behaves like an antidepressant. It restores motivation in rats with central nervous system disorders. It improves mood and increases emotional stability in people with dementia.
Other studies with rats show that Aniracetam relieves circadian rhythm disorders and REM sleep disturbances. It decreases hyperactivity and impulsive behaviour, symptoms associated with ADHD in people.
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Like Piracetam, Aniracetam must build up in the brain for a couple of weeks before it provides its full effect. However, because it crosses the blood brain barrier very easily, initial effects can be felt soon after taking the first dose. Some people report experiencing its benefits within hours.
Because Aniracetam has a more intense effect than Piracetam, but its effect wears off more quickly, your Aniracetam dose should be smaller than your Piracetam dose, and you should take Aniracetam at more frequent intervals. Recommended dosages of Aniracetam range from 750 milligrams to 4500 milligrams per day, which can be divided into four doses taken throughout the day.
Both Piracetam and Aniracetam affect acetylcholine receptors. As with Piracetam, taking choline with Aniracetam can help prevent headache.
If you're looking for a drug with low toxicity and few side effects that can help improve your memory, concentration and learning ability, either Piracetam or Aniracetam could be right for you. You can use Aniracetam for short periods of intense focus or Piracetam for cognitive enhancement over a longer period.
However, if you're in search of something that will help alleviate feelings of depression or anxiety, particularly social anxiety, reduce impulsiveness or relieve problems with your sleep-wake cycle, you should try Aniracetam.
For the best of both worlds, you can stack the two, combining the longer term cognitive enhancing effects of Piracetam with the shorter term cognitive enhancing and mood boosting effects of Aniracetam. Be sure to reduce the dosage of both drugs when stacking.
Originally posted on April 24, 2014, last updated on December 1, 2018.
I have tried both of these fairly recently. Although, each person experiences nootropics in their own personal way… I have found Aniracetam to be more effective for me and requires a much smaller dose. Piracetam does have an effect but is just too subtle in my own opinion.


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Q: Proper stdin / stdout redirection for automated testing in C This is a fairly simple question, however I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer :
What file and mode should I restore stdin and stdout to after having redirected them ? (to test a function that uses plain printf and / or scanf instead of asking for a file pointer)
Currently, I'm doing this :
/* Error detection code omitted for conciseness, the real code checks return values */
freopen("/dev/tty", "r", stdin);
freopen("/dev/tty", "w", stdout);

However, this is more or less a complete guess on my part, and I'd like to be sure I'm doing things right. Reopening stdout in "a" mode also would make sense, and I'm not sure them both interacting with the same file is the default behavior ? Can someone tel me if this is right ?


It looks like NBC will be asking more from its biggest sports personality for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Today the network announced that Bob Costas will host both the network's primetime and late night coverage of the Winter Games this February.
Costas will be serving as primetime host for the 10th time in Sochi. He recently served as host of both primetime and late night telecasts in 2000.


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https://simkl.com/tv/2525/the-larry-sanders-show 1992-08-15T00:00:00Z
1992 - 1998 • HBO • 45 hours
Comic Garry Shandling draws upon his own talk show experiences to create the character of Larry Sanders, a paranoid, insecure host of a late night talk show. Larry, along with his obsequious TV sidekick Hank Kingsley and his fiercely protective producer Artie, allows Garry Shandling and his talented ... More writers to look behind the scenes and to show us a convincing slice of behind the camera life. Less
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Aired on 05/31/1998
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Sub Genres: producer, fictional talk show, comedy writer, sitcom, movie business, staff, boss, tv show, tv, monologue, showbiz, character name in title, celebrity guest, gay personal assistant, series in series, television writer, tv crew, tv program, cameo appearance, four word series title, fictional tv show, joke, spoof, social satire... more, satire, comedian, pop culture, parody, television, celebrity, workplace, stand-up comedian, actress, entertainment, interview, movie star, actor, employer employee relationship, behind the scenes, character name as series title
Air Date: 08/15/1992 - 05/31/1998
Age Rating: TV-MA
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Desert Pines High School is a public high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, and is a part of the Clark County School District. The school which opened in 1999, also houses the Academy of Information Technology and the Academy of Communications.

Academy of Information Technology
The Academy of Information Technology at Desert Pines is a magnet program that educates students on the products, service, and implementation of information technology. Students enrolled in the academy learn about hardware (CyberCore, tech support, and computer forensics), software (programming, web development, and ORACLE), as well as networks (Cisco, Novell, etc.). After graduating from the program, students receive industry recognized certifications in A+, Cisco, Java, and ORACLE.

Extracurricular activities

JROTC
Desert Pines is home to one of the two Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units in the Clark County School District (the other being at Basic High School).

Athletics
The athletic programs at Desert Pines are known as the Jaguars and participate in the Northeast Division in the Sunrise 4A Region.  The Jaguars football team have made the playoffs and as always show strong players, but did not have much success until the 2016 season. On Saturday, November 19, 2016, the Desert Pines varsity football team beat Spring Creek High School in the 3A high school football state championship game with a score of 39-6.

Notable alumni
 Nate Grimes (born 1996), basketball player
 Pierre Jackson, basketball player
 Julian Jacobs, basketball player
 Tony Fields II, football player
 Darnell Washington (born 2001), football player

References

External links

Clark County School District
Educational institutions established in 1999
High schools in Las Vegas
Public high schools in Nevada
Magnet schools in Nevada
1999 establishments in Nevada

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With unexplained strength, grandson lifts car off man
Ray Kisonas
IDA TOWNSHIP ? When the car slipped off the blocks and fell on top of 74-year-old Ernie Monhollen, he figured the end was coming.
"I knew I was gone," Mr. Monhollen said. "If I would have been there by myself, I would have died. I know it."
But he wasn't alone. With him was his 15-year-old grandson Austin Smith, who found the strength to lift up that Buick and allow the man he calls "Papa"? to crawl out. His injuries were severe, but he was alive.
"It happened very fast," said Austin, a freshman at Ida High School. "I just reacted. There was nothing else I could do."
It's an incredible story of family, faith and a burst of mysterious strength tied together with "ifs": If Austin hadn't been dropped off that Saturday morning at his grandparents' home on Todd Rd., if Mr. Monhollen hadn't discovered a leak under the car or if Austin had panicked, the outcome could have been much, much different.
As it was, Mr. Monhollen suffered a terrible 6-inch gash across his face, a broken eye socket, four missing teeth and three cracked ribs. But he is alive. He and his wife, Nancy, believe that divine intervention gave Austin enough strength to lift that car.
"The Lord was right there with him,"? Mrs. Monhollen said. "This truly is a miracle."
On Saturday morning, Austin was visiting his grandparents as he often does. That 1991 Buick Century was sitting there and Mr. Monhollen decided to get it back on the road for one of his grandkids.
With Austin pumping the brake pedal, Mr. Monhollen was on the outside bleeding the brakes. The car was up on concrete blocks when Mr. Monhollen noticed a leak. He decided to investigate.
"I had no intention of getting under that car,"? he said. "But there was a leak, so I decided I'll take a look."
then Austin was outside the car. When his grandfather grabbed the front end from underneath to pull himself out, the car suddenly dropped, trapping him underneath.
"He was screaming,"? Austin said.
"I thought that was it," Mr. Monhollen said. "I thought my whole skull was caved in."
Then the teen went into action. Knowing he had only seconds and assisted only by adrenaline, he lifted the front end of the car. With its six-cylinder engine, it probably weighs around 2,500 pounds. Yet he lifted and shoved it backward. Mr. Monhollen, dazed and bleeding profusely, managed to crawl from beneath.
Austin then ran into the house and yelled for his grandmother to call 911. That began the chaos.
"I thought he was dead,"? Mrs. Monhollen said. "I just panicked."
"She always thinks of the worst things that can happen," said Austin's older sister, Allison. The third sibling, Morgan, is a senior at Ida.
"Thank God for Austin," Mrs. Monhollen added. "He just kept his cool. He was trying to calm me down."
Mrs. Monhollen praised the Ida volunteer firefighters for rushing to the house to help. Within minutes, Mr. Monhollen was in an ambulance headed for the hospital where he received at least 50 stitches to close the wound.
Even though he's an athlete and works out, Austin said there's no way he could lift that car again. He doesn't know where that calm, cool and collect demeanor came from.
"He didn't get it from me," said his dad, Tim Smith.
For Mr. Monhollen, it was a lousy way to spend his birthday. But he also knows that it could have been much worse. Doctors were planning to remove the stitches today and he is expected to make a full recovery.
Both grandparents are so proud of Austin and how he handled the entire situation. He's a regular at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and his grandmother said the hand of God was surely present that morning when her grandson found the strength to lift the car.
"I've never seen anything like it," Mrs. Monhollen said. "And I never will again."
"It's a miracle he got that car off me," Mr. Monhollen added.
One thing is certain: Mr. Monhollen is never getting underneath a car again.
"I don't think I'll even let him change a tire,"? Mrs. Monhollen said.


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If You Made Fun of Lil Nas X's Halloween Costume, You're Part of the Problem
Bad Bunny dressing in drag for his "Yo Perreo Sola" music video didn't receive as much outright hate or as many transphobic comments. When Quincy Brown dressed as Frida Kahlo this year, the comment section of his Instagram was full of praise.
There seems to be this unspoken rule that so long as a man is either dressing as a woman for a joke or is purposefully "unattractive" in womenswear, then it's cool. To be clear: Lil Nas X absolutely killed it as Nicki Minaj. His costume was so good he might as well have been a doppelgänger. Yet, people asked if he was transgender.
That suggests that those making fun of his costume, or those trying to bring him down, subscribe to the antiquated assumption that transgender women aren't women – they're simply gay men in disguise. It also reasons that the people making these comments are so caught up in their sense of self they don't realize everything isn't about them. Lil Nas X didn't dress up as Nicki Minaj for you, he dressed as Nicki Minaj for himself because it made him happy.
By now you've probably seen Lil Nas X's amazing Halloween tribute to Nicki Minaj. While many on Twitter immediately gave it the recognition and the love it deserved, there were plenty of trolls who were quick to resort to both homophobic and transphobic insults.
The unwarranted backlash Lil Nas X received from the trolls begs the question: Why is it more permissible for certain straight cisgender men to dress up as women, but the minute Lil Nas X does, people are up in arms over it?
People think they're extremely clever when they make homophobic or transphobic remarks under the guise of "constructive criticism." They're not open to learning and are a part of the reason Lil Nas X kept who he is, hidden for so long. He was afraid to let people know he was a Barb because he was worried about how it would affect his rap career if people assumed he was gay before his coming out.
Even now, it's these comments that make it hard for others to have fun and enjoy themselves because they'll be harassed. Not too long after posting his costume, Lil Nas X tweeted, "bro I don't bother a soul in this industry. All I do is tweet and make bangers. Leave me alone damn." But can people leave him alone? No, they have to tell him that he's ruining families' lives, even though his life literally doesn't affect them.
Toxic masculinity is f*cked up, and until we start recognizing society's double standards, people like Lil Nas X won't ever be free.
When heterosexual cisgender men wear skirts or makeup or dress in womenswear, it's considered groundbreaking – at least where gender norms are concerned. When it comes to what a person wears, especially something as fun and silly as a Halloween costume, it shouldn't matter what a person's sexuality is. Clothes are clothes, regardless of who wears them.
Lil Nas X recently tweeted that, "grown men are waking up to have group discussions about a costume I wore on Halloween." For every conversation about how great his costume was, there's likely one about how his costume is the downfall of society. Toxic masculinity is f*cked up, and until we start recognizing society's double standards, people like Lil Nas X won't ever be free.
It's okay to be jealous of Lil Nas X's costume because of how spot-on it was. What's not okay is to use his costume as the brunt of offensive jokes or as a vehicle to perpetuate your outdated worldview.
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Example-driven

JBehave was developed as behaviour-driven and example-driven.  Read more about the
examples modules and
examples philosophy.

Getting the source code

Examples are not released as artifacts so the source code is needed to run them.
The source code can be checked out from source repository
or can be found as one of artifacts of the jbehave-distribution (the "src" zip bundle).

Running Examples with latest snapshot

To build core modules and run examples with Maven:

The use of settings.xml is only required the first time you build
(see building source).

The 'examples' profile instructs Maven to build the releasable modules and to verify their
behaviour by running the examples afterwards.

To run the GUI example too (requires non-headless mode):

If you are running the GUI example, see the note on building source
for installing all the required dependendencies.

Running Examples against a fixed version

In some cases, you may want to run the examples against a known version of JBehave.

Note that running the examples in 'standalone' mode requires the JBehave parent POM to be present, as it
contains the information about the setup of the project, e.g. the compiler, the layout of the source, etc.

One option, is to pull the dependencies from the snapshots repository, activated by the sonatype profile in the settings.xml
provided next to the top-level POM.

The other option is to install the parent POM from source:

As with any Maven artifact that is not expected to change,
the build or retrieval is only required once, as it will be cached in the local repository.
So, once you've built the JBehave parent POM from source or retrieved it from the snapshots
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Azusa Pacific baseball opens regional with win…
Azusa Pacific baseball opens regional with win over rival Cal Baptist
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2017 at 12:57 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 4:06 a.m.
AZUSA >> If the Azusa Pacific University baseball team is to advance to its first NCAA Division II World Series, the Cougars pitching staff is going to take them there.
Junior Billy Oxford took step one in that quest Thursday.
Oxford tossed a six-hitter and Justin Gomez hit a two-run home run in the sixth and APU opened up the West Regional with a 3-1 victory over Pacific West Conference rival California Baptist at the Cougar Baseball Complex.
APU (41-10), the No. 2 seed, faces No. 3 Dixie State (37-12-1) or No. 4 UC San Diego (36-17), who played the late game Thursday, at 7 p.m. on Friday. Cal Baptist, the No. 5 seed, faces No. 1 Chico State (45-9), which lost to No. 6 Cal Poly Pomona (33-20) 8-7 in 10 innings, in an elimination game at 11 a.m. on Friday.
"George Barnes, our pitching coach, has done a great job with (the staff)," APU coach Paul Svagdis said. "He's got them really locked in to a good pitching plan. When you pitch, you're going to have a shot."
Oxford, who threw a shutout over Dixie State last week to help the Cougars clinch their first PacWest title, followed it up with another solid outing. He retired the first 10 batters and allowed only three baserunners during the first six innings before gutting it out in the ninth to improve to 11-1, He also struck out seven.
He got in a little trouble in the ninth. Cal Baptist, which tied it at 1 on a home run by Bryce Macy in the fourth, got two hits before Oxford ended it by striking out Ryan Williams.
"Honestly, I got a little bit off my process in (the ninth)," Oxford said. "I tried to do too much. (Gomez) calmed me down, helped me. I kept the ball down, trusted what my coach (called)."
Gomez, who went 2 for 4, set up the win with his two-run home run in the sixth for a 3-1 lead.
"Coach Svagdis was trying to get us (to sit on the changeup)," Gomez said. "After I swung and fouled the first changeup off, I looked at him and he was like, 'Trust me one time.' I saw that change up and trusted it and put the barrel to it and luckily it went out of the yard for us."
The Cougars had taken a 1-0 lead in the second on a home run by Michael Staudinger.


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In a near perfect merging of polar opposites, video and statistics, Shutterstock, with data partner comScore and others, has created a video infographic called "Show Me Something" that highlights the exponential growth and engagement power of online video.
Take a minute to watch the video; it's a compelling story based mostly on comScore's Video Metrix product and includes some eye-popping statistics on U.S. online video numbers for just the month of January of this year.
Given that surge, it might come as no surprise that video ads are the fastest-growing segment of advertising on the Web. Video-ad spending doubled from 2011 to 2013 in the U.S. and is expected to grow 41% to $5.7 billion this year, according to the report, and $8 billion by 2016. That number is tempered considerably in the current Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) report that claims online video advertising hit only $2.8 billion in 2013 (versus the $4.1 billion in the Shutterstock video) – up only 19% compared with $2.3 billion in 2012. It's still significant growth, with huge implications for the digital- advertising industry, and places video advertising as the fourth largest online advertising format behind mobile.
In typical overstatement that now plays as conventional wisdom, it is speculated that many of those dollars will come from print media as well as online display, but TV budgets aren't exempt and actually are the primary target. Both YouTube and Facebook are aggressively going after TV budgets, with Google seeking commitments in key content channels such as Beauty & Fashion, Comedy, Food and Drink, and Sports and Music, by offering audience guarantees and upfront buys – just like the TV networks. The pitch: TV ratings continue to decline and Web video reaches light TV viewers and cord cutters, most of whom are in the most desirable demographics.
The 2nd annual "newfronts" presentations that are making the rounds now, just before May's broadcast TV and cable annual upfront-negotiation extravaganzas for the coming fall season. A precursor to this was Google's adaptation in November of a TV-like audience measurement that gives advertisers a way to make apples-to-apples comparisons with traditional TV. Through Nielsen or comScore tagging, advertisers can track things such as the number of people who see the ads and how often they are exposed. It also provides demographic data about who views the ads, which is how YouTube is offering guarantees. Regardless of which platform or channel it is viewed, the high consumer engagement of visual content has got marketers' attention and investment. Along with the ad budget, they are committing TV-sized funds around production as well. To illustrate the viral nature of compelling video ad storytelling, the 10 most-shared ads of 2013 generated 28.8 million shares between them—a 52.1% increase from 2012 (19 million).
For small businesses on limited budgets, quality production only enhances the great story that has to exist from the get-go, directed at the right audience. They can range from client testimonials, to behind-the-scenes sharing, or "How I got into ____" story. Check out these tips from onSMB and more tips from SmartShoot for great ways to incorporate video into your small-business marketing strategy.
Returning to the Shutterstock video, you may be thinking, no way I'd dedicate 19 hours of my month (on average) to video! Most likely your children are carrying most of the weight on that statistic, but you are exposed to much more video than you likely are aware. No doubt, included in the count are the ones that play instantly, but are not really viewed or even seen. (eMarketer reports video ad completion rates of roughly 47% overall, so there still is much work to be done by brands and buyers to deliver relevant ads to engaged audiences.) Still, those are remarkable numbers.
According to Citrix's "A Day in the Life of a Modern Smartphone User," infographic, which features lots of interesting mobile stats, 32% of social media is made up of videos. These statistics have inspired changes at both social and web portals. Facebook and Twitter purchased microvideo networks – Instagram and Vine, respectively – and are devoting more one-click video real estate right in the user feed. The portal sites are not standing idly by either. Yahoo is jockeying to come up with a YouTube competitor, and AOL just announced a comprehensive site make-over that positions it to become a video-ad powerhouse. Even the print and online news business is jumping into the fray; both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are investing heavily in video content for their digital properties and will be presenting at NewFronts this year. The Seattle Times (where I am employed) is dabbling in providing video news content and currently offers pre-roll video advertising with an option to extend that reach through partner sites.
The growth of online video viewing on mobile also deserves notice. According to Shutterstock/comScore, 8% of videos (1 in 12) were watched via mobile in 2012; in 2013 that frequency jumped to 1 in 6 (16%), and this trend isn't showing any signs of slowing. The Citrix study, also done in January of this year, claims 20% of smartphone users use their phones to view video. Half of them are served display banner ads, which now account for 2% of mobile volume, but only one in 20 is served a video ad.
While still in its infancy, marketers have high expectations for mobile and mobile outreach is being promoted as one of the most direct ways to reach target audiences. That said, most still aren't seeing the kind value parity that would justify investment; it's still just not as good in the minds of advertisers, according to Forrester Research, as the oft-maligned display advertising. In truth, most don't have a mobile strategy, let alone one strictly for mobile video, yet no one thinks mobile advertising is going to get smaller over the next few years.
For more stats on video viewing across devices, check out these highlights from the 2014 Experian Cross Device Video Analysis.
So how does all this video viewing play out in the Seattle market? According to the 2013 Nielsen Scarborough Research Report, the Seattle-Tacoma DMA market – 17 counties in Western Washington – outpaces the top-50 DMAs in the nation for technology ownership and is #1 for PC ownership.
No wonder, then, that it also tops the nation for Internet access in the past month at 89%. As a tech-savvy market, one would think it would be a leader in video-viewing too, but it only ranks 12th – about even for the market's size – for engaging with video content, with nearly 1.3M adults viewing each month, but much lower for doing so on a smartphone or tablet.
The high use of PCs might have something more to do with so many in the market being employed in the software industry rather than device preference. They have ready access to viewing from both work and home, therefore making it unnecessary to waste battery power viewing on their mobile devices.
These findings tend to match the video ad-spending trends in the marketplace. According to Borrell Associates, advertisers from inside the Seattle-Tacoma DMA spent 16% of their online budgets on video ads in 2013.
As the graphic below shows, the Seattle market is behind on investment in video, spending nearly 4% less than is typically allocated nationally, and relying more on email and display ROS. Video spending was $64,170,000 in 2013; that amount is expected to increase 125% by 2018, hitting $144.6 million.
In a March 2014 survey conducted by American Opinion Research (AOR) on behalf of The Seattle Times, 87% of local online users access the Internet during the average week and 66% daily. The study concluded that catching up with news and information is the primary reason for going online in this market, with watching videos a strong (and growing) second and emailing a link or video third. Coming in at the 6th position is viewing photo galleries, which almost always is preceded by a video ad. That pretty much reflects the national trends.
If nothing else is apparent from the rapidly evolving world of visual and video engagement, it is abundantly clear that traditional marketing efforts are not enough to stay competitive. Marketing no longer is something you push at a customer; it's something you do with them and that requires putting yourself in their shoes. Video will certainly help you connect at that level.
So much is happening in the video realm right now, it is difficult to keep pace with all the changes and announcements. In researching this post, I was taken in a new direction daily, if not hourly(!) and I expect even more news will transpire before I publish it. Not every platform or option will be right, but spending the time to find the visual angle to your business' story and experimenting with different content formats not only will add spark to an already strong marketing strategy, but will boost awareness, engagement and, potentially, conversions. Video is an easy route to creating buzz and the right campaign integrated into your other marketing efforts can quickly generate referrals, friends, fans and followers.
How about you? Is video advertising in your future? What questions do you need answered to become a believer? Are you already a superstar at video promotion? Share your successes in the comments section below!